It's not loading times, the steam files have to decrypt before launching the game. At the rate it's going, it'll be 2:00 EST before I can actually launch the game. It's just weird because it takes about the same amount of disk space as Dragon Age but that decrypted for me in like 5 minutes.

I was actually talking about the game. I hear it's a known bug with some UE3 based games.

Do you know if ATI is planing official AA and Crossfire support with this week's driver?
ATI is once again not ready for a major game release

I don't know if they are but with that 5970 in your sig you can run Mass Effect with 16xAA no problem. I am on a 4870x2 and with 8xAA I get 60 fps most of the time. 16xAA I get about 30 with dips in combat.